I do not think identifiers should use CV at all.

[image] spiphany: something you are in favor of Huh, nope. There is no autocomplete (dropdown menu or not) on iNat at the moment. Only CV. And at the moment, in this universe, there is (understandably) zero discouraging its use, either by explicit guidelines or by technical means. [image] …

[image] GeolTel: There is no autocomplete (dropdown menu or not) on iNat at the moment. Only CV. This is either obviously false, or you haven’t explained yourself clearly. The ID input box supports both CV suggestions and autocompletion. The former only works when the input box is empty. How…

On the ‘/observations/#’ pages there is no way to use the ‘Species name’ form field without having first a “nudge” by the CV, then, upon hitting some keys, a second different “nudge” by whatever algorithm orders the new suggestions in some unpredictable way (it’s definitely not alphabetical, and doe…

Moved the above discussion from https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-computer-vision-on-each-photo-in-an-observation/4210/ [image] GeolTel: On the ‘/observations/#’ pages there is no way to use the ‘Species name’ form field without having first a “nudge” by the CV Maybe technically you’ll see…

[image] vladimir_fuka: I am using CV to autocomplete the IDs of my own observations all the time! Most of my observations will have the CV symbol even for taxons that I know very well. However, I do not believe that IDers should use CV when identifying observations of other observers in the Ide…

If that’s the case, then do you think they should not use the “Agree” button either?

If I say what I really would like to say, this comment would probably get nixed. I can’t even think of an emoji that wouldn’t achieve the same result. Yikes.

Autocomplete seems to work by the largest observed or most relevant taxon first, its trying to predict what you might want based on the informtaion it has so far. Take for example the species Luridiblatta trivittata, long to type out, but is also the first recommendation if you type L trivit(or any…

How did you read that from what I wrote? I do not upload my observations in the Identify tab. Uploading one’s own observations is completely different from identifying someone else’s. It is expected that observer’s often use CV and quite uncritically so (and that may include myself for certain taxo…

Since I agree to everyone above, I come to the conclusion that we still don’t understand you. Because, from a technical point of view, everything has been explained correctly.

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